This movie has a weird existentialist/nihilist/outlaw biker theme to it that could have made for a vigorously depressing romp like "Easy Rider", or "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry", two GOOD nihilist/outlaw movies that this bad movie was trying to emulate.However, the director had no idea how to get the performances he needed out of his actors, or about pacing, timing, blocking, or story arcs..so the movie just sucks in a leaden, energy-sapping way.
The movie starts out with some white trash losers (I can call them that,since I'm 1/4 Shanty Irish myself) competing in a new 'underground' sport called "Side Hacking". Side Hacking is apparently the Special Olympics version of dirt track motorcycle racing because they slow down the motorcycles by welding sidecars onto them and requiring two men to work carefully in tandem in order to travel 1/2 as fast as an ordinary dirt track motorcycle race. It's like having a sailboat race that requires the boats to drag rowboats full of anchors behind them at all times. So the whole sport is pointless, and silly, and a complete waste of time. Not unlike this movie. Anyway...
Ross Hagen, Wooden Leading Man Extraordinare, plays "Rommel", an up-and-coming Side Hacker who gets involved with a megalomaniac named "JC" (played by character actor Micheal Pataki back before he made a name for himself) and JC's merry band of misfits (or else they're his cult). JC's girlfriend makes a pass at Rommel, Rommel turns her down, and the girlfriend tries to get petty, childish revenge by making JC think that Rommel raped her. Hilarity ensues, and everybody eventually ends up dead, and the movie just stops.
I think the director was trying to make a point about the emptiness of modern lives, the chaotic, confused nature of real violence between human beings, but he ended up filming a dull, blurry, grainy, badly paced mess, which is what happens when your vision outstrips your talent and you don't have real actors to carry off your 'stellar' lines.
Joel and the Bots covered this one (under the title "Side Hackers"),and there is a hilarious theme song in one of the bumpers that makes the whole thing worth watching once.
"It's a sport that attracts a lot of racing fools
It's easy to learn, cause there are no rules
All you need is a toxic landfill,
A cycle and a side-car and an urge to kill!
Better check it out, 'cause it won't last long,
The founders of the sport are laid in Forest Lawn,
Yeah...!"
The movie starts out with some white trash losers (I can call them that,since I'm 1/4 Shanty Irish myself) competing in a new 'underground' sport called "Side Hacking". Side Hacking is apparently the Special Olympics version of dirt track motorcycle racing because they slow down the motorcycles by welding sidecars onto them and requiring two men to work carefully in tandem in order to travel 1/2 as fast as an ordinary dirt track motorcycle race. It's like having a sailboat race that requires the boats to drag rowboats full of anchors behind them at all times. So the whole sport is pointless, and silly, and a complete waste of time. Not unlike this movie. Anyway...
Ross Hagen, Wooden Leading Man Extraordinare, plays "Rommel", an up-and-coming Side Hacker who gets involved with a megalomaniac named "JC" (played by character actor Micheal Pataki back before he made a name for himself) and JC's merry band of misfits (or else they're his cult). JC's girlfriend makes a pass at Rommel, Rommel turns her down, and the girlfriend tries to get petty, childish revenge by making JC think that Rommel raped her. Hilarity ensues, and everybody eventually ends up dead, and the movie just stops.
I think the director was trying to make a point about the emptiness of modern lives, the chaotic, confused nature of real violence between human beings, but he ended up filming a dull, blurry, grainy, badly paced mess, which is what happens when your vision outstrips your talent and you don't have real actors to carry off your 'stellar' lines.
Joel and the Bots covered this one (under the title "Side Hackers"),and there is a hilarious theme song in one of the bumpers that makes the whole thing worth watching once.
"It's a sport that attracts a lot of racing fools
It's easy to learn, cause there are no rules
All you need is a toxic landfill,
A cycle and a side-car and an urge to kill!
Better check it out, 'cause it won't last long,
The founders of the sport are laid in Forest Lawn,
Yeah...!"